Unit Chief

Job Description:

Unit Chief

Description

We respect and embrace the experiences, knowledge and contributions of our team members. We strive for a culture of belonging and balance by upholding our values : Stewardship, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect, and Innovation. We are passionate about Missouri, our role to preserve, protect and enhance our environment and we are committed to serving its’ citizens. We believe our mission and vision serves a greater purpose and will be felt for generations to come.

This position will be located at 1730 E. Elm Street, Jefferson City, MO.

You will be joining the Department’s Brownfields/Voluntary Cleanup Program (BVCP), where you will work as the leader of the Long-Term Stewardship (LTS) Unit. Team members track and conduct inspections of LTS sites ensuring the tools and controls used at formally contaminated properties protect human health and the environment from any remaining contamination until they are no longer needed.

Long-term stewardship applies to sites and properties where long-term management is necessary to protect human health and the environment from contamination that remains after cleanup. For various reasons, some contaminated properties cannot be cleaned up to pristine conditions. The department also allows some properties to be cleaned to specific levels, such as residential or non-residential, based partly on current and future land uses. The department tracks, regularly inspects, distributes information, and raises public awareness about these sites.

• Provide supervision and mentoring for LTS Unit staff, including assigning tasks and projects, establishing work priorities, and ensuring successful completion of staff assignments.
• D irect the management of Environmental Remediation Program (ERP) LTS sites, including inspections, information management, and oversight for activities such as maintenance projects and long-term monitoring.
• Coordinate the ERP’s effort to provide LTS information to users.

To be successful in this position, a candidate will need the following skills:

• Manages Human Resources: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance.
• Environmental Science : Knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, and methods to protect and improve the quality of the environment and its resources; and to monitor, control, abate, and prevent pollutants.
• Technical Skills: Ability to comprehend, interpret, and apply laws, policies, guidance, procedures, plans, and reports.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Oral and Written Communicatio n: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, consider the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences/natural resources/physical sciences and 4-6 years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Familiarity with database management.
• Familiarity with Geographic Information System.

Training, certification, and/or education in continuous process improvement programs such as Lean Six Sigma as well as completion of Missouri Way, Leadership Academy, and similar programs is preferred.

Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.

Benefits & Work-life Balance

Our benefits package and flexible 40-hour work week promotes the mental and physical health of you and your family as you work towards achieving your professional goals. Benefits include paid vacation and sick leave, paid life insurance, medical, dental, vision and prescription insurance. Learn more here .

How we invest in you:

• Exceptional professional development: mentoring from experienced professionals, cross-media training, career advancement opportunities, paid trainings and continuing education tuition assistance.
• Support for professional registrations when required, through paid study materials, fees, study time, test time, exam fees and licensure renewal fees.

Salary:

$65,400-$68,664 per Year